The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-09-08
COB MEAL FOR HOGS,
Interesting Experiments Made at the lows
Agricultural College.

Interesting Experiments Made at the low q
Agricultural College.
The relative merits of cob meal (corn
and cobs ground together) and Indian
meal (the corn alone) are forcibly por-
traysd in an experiment at the Iowa
Agricultural College. Six lots of young
barrows of the same breed averaging
about $50 pounds each were divided in
to two departments of the same weight
and flesh. During the spring and sum-
mer they received little more than grass,
and after August were fed grain to fat
ten them. Full feeds of rye were given
them excepting one week in the last of
August, when corn on the cob was fed.
The feeding Of meal was begun on Sep
TENDER IA, and before account was taken
of the experiment, each lot was fed one
week to accustom it to the feed. At
this time they were quite even in degree
of fairness, but those fed corn meal were
somewhat the heavier.
The hogs were weighed at the begin
ming of the experiment at the end of one
week, and again at the end of two
weeks, when they were sold. In each
case the weight was taken about noon
and before feeding. They were fed
three times each day. The meal was
slightly moistened and small pinch of
salt given each lot in the mornings
food. They were kept in Enclosures
where no other food was obtainable.
The week before the experiment began
the weight of the six hogs was 1,452
pounds.
During the first weeks experiments,
Lot No. 1, fed on cob meal, gained 81
pounds; No. 2, 243 pounds; No. 8, 124
pounds, making total of AZ pounds
for the cob-fed class the first week.
Those fed pure meal gained 16a pounds,
132 pounds and 16f pounds, amounting
to 49, pounds. At the end of the second
week of feeding, the first class fed on
cob meal had gained 2S pounds, max
ing with the frss weeks gain of AZ
pounds. Is pounds. The second class,
fed on clear meal, had made a gain of
50f pounds in the second week, or a
total gain 81 pounds, showing n gain
over the cob meal of p pounds. Of
course this demonstrates the superior
value of the clear meal; but when the
relative expense of the two meals is
considered, the experiment speaks very
highly for cob and corn ground to-
gether, all the more SC when we re-
member that the second class fed on
clear meal was slightly heavier than
Glass at the beginning of the first
weeks experiments.
By carefully weighing several bushels
before and after Smelling. it was found
that there are 140S pounds of cob to
each bushel of corn, counting zoos
pounds to the bushel of corn and cob
meal. and IS pounds to a bushel of
corn meal. There was fed 6.22 bushels
of corn and cob meal and $50 bushels |
of clear corn meal The cob meal pro- |
duced 1905 pounds of pork for each !
bushel fed and the corn meal 11.67 |
pounds per bushel To produce one
pound Of pork. 4.79 pounds of the clear
meal were required and 5.S1 pounds of |
the cob meal. At 50 per hundred
weight (the price at which the hogs
we're soldD, the gain gave 46 cents per
bushel for the cob meal, and 42l cents
per bushel for the clear corn meal.
The hogs fed clear corn meal gained
more rapidly but made less money out
IF the corn consumed-Faym and
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